The military body specified on its Telegram channel that the Russian Southern Group of troops occupied the town of Ilyinovka, in the Donetsk People’s Republic, after decisive fighting.

The ministry also added that its troops from the Northern Group of troops took control of the town of Zemlianki in the Ukrainian Kharkiv region.

The Ministry estimated approximately 300 Ukrainian military casualties in the last 24 hours in the Central Group’s area of ​​operations; additionally, the Eastern Group inflicted up to 260 enemy casualties; the Western Group, up to 190; and the Northern Group, more than 150. In the Southern Group’s area of ​​responsibility, more than 130 were destroyed; in the Dnieper Group, up to 40.

Russian forces destroyed five armored vehicles, 42 cars, five pieces of heavy artillery, eight weapons depots, an electronic warfare station, among other targets.

According to the report, the Russian Aerospace Forces struck Ukrainian Armed Forces energy facilities, sites where drones were assembled, stored, and launched, fuel depots, and 142 sites used by Ukrainian troops and foreign mercenaries.

Russian air defenses shot down 281 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles and 10 guided bombs.

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